By Odimegwu Onwumere / Imo, Nigeria / Dec. 25, 2013 – Christmas is celebrated on December 25 each year. It has been taken as a consecrated fiesta of Christians, no matter that history shows the celebration as archetypical of the ancient traditions of the worshippers of Sun God. No matter any divergent view to the […]
“I was stripped of my shirt, shoes inside forest and my driver left with only his boxer shorts on” The immediate past primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Dr. Peter Akinola on Christmas day recounted his ordeal in the hands of the gunmen who abducted him on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State […]
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head-of-State, Gen. Sani Abacha, has challenged ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, to a public debate on any issue concerning Nigeria. Al-Mustapha threw the challenge in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America, monitored in Abuja, on Wednesday. The former CSO was reacting to news […]
The first batch of 80 Nigerians to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the deportees arrived in the country on board an Ethiopian Airline plane at about noon. Mr Daniel Obot, the Assistant Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, National Emergency […]
President Goodluck Jonathan again on Wednesday hit back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the 18-page letter he wrote in which he accused the President of deceit, deception, dishonesty, incompetence and clannishness among others. He had on Sunday replied Obasanjo’s letter, describing it as full of lies. The President revisited the issue during a Christmas […]
Two bombs in Christian areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 35 people, officials have said. One device exploded near a Catholic church when worshippers were leaving a Christmas Day service, killing 24. Another bomb ripped through a market, killing 11 more people. Christian leaders denied that the attacks had targeted worshippers. […]
UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts. It was against his conscience to support a country which carried out a “dreadful witch hunt against the gay community”, he said on his website. The bill proposes […]
The Pastor of the Household of God Church International, Chris Okotie, recently bought a Rolls Royce Coupe, the 2014 Bespoke Edition, to mark his 30 years as born-again Christian and 27 years as a pastor,SUNDAY PUNCH learnt on Saturday. According to Okotie’s close aide, the pastor spent N120m on the luxury car and had earlier […]
President Goodluck Jonathan began his responses to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s blistering letter with a series of excuses – excuses that are wholly unnecessary. What I was expecting was a line-by-line rebuttal. And to, in the end, put a political noose around Obasanjo’s neck. Or, for Jonathan to confess and then resign or be impeached. But […]
International efforts are intensifying to end the bloodshed in South Sudan, where thousands of people are believed to have died in the past 10 days. The UN Security Council is almost doubling the number of peacekeepers to 12,500 in the world’s newest state.US Secretary of State John Kerry urged both President Salva Kiir and rebel […]
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